Golf club



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Zion B. Reach,

Patented Jan. 2, 1934 '1 4 PATENT OFFICE GOLF CLUB Milton B. Reach, Springfield, Mass., assignor to A. G. Spalding & Bros., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey Application June 6, 1931. Serial No. 542,623

3 Claims.

The invention relates to means for identifying golf clubs so that the desired club can readily be chosen while they are in the caddy bag with their sole portions exposed and having withdrawn the 5 club from the bag, the choice may be checked when the club is about to be used in making the stroke.

In carrying out the invention the club is provided with a suitable mark of identification on its sole, or in other words, on the lower face of the head. This mark is distinctive in respect to marks on other clubs in the bag so that it may be distinguished quickly from the other clubs for making the desired shot.

Owing to the mental hazards attending the playing of the game, the player, after having withdrawn the club from the bag, may wish to check the choice that he has made, and, while the club is in hand ready for use in making the stroke, and for enabling this check up to be made, the club is provided on the upper end of the shaft with an identifying mark such as a number corresponding to the mark or number on the sole of the club.

The invention relates also to the means for placing the identifying mark at the top of the club shaft.

In the drawing Figure l is a perspective view of a club showing 30 the identifying mark at the sole.

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the identifying mark at the upper end of the shaft.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the upper end of the shaft showing a cap member for carrying the upper identifying mark, and the manner in which it is held to the shaft.

Fig. 4 is a similar View of a modification.

Fig. 5 is a View of a further modification.

As shown on this drawing, on the sole face 40 of the head I place an identifying mark, for instance, the number 4. This may be stamped in the material of which the head is composed, or otherwise applied.

This identifying number is visible when the club is in the caddy bag with the head uppermost so that this particular club can be chosen by its number if it is desired to use it in making the stroke. At the top of the shaft a cap I) is applied, and this bears in identifying mark similar to the mark on the head, in this instance, the number 4, so that, as above stated, the player may check up on his choice at any time before he actually makes his stroke. The playing of golf according to the temperament of the player is often attended with more or less nervous strain and, at times, mental lapses, and one who is susceptible to this mental hazard, after he has directed his caddy to give him a club identified by a certain number, or has himself identified a desired club by the number on its head and taken it from the bag, upon addressing the ball becomes uncertain whether he has in his hands the desired club. To check up on this ordinarily, the player must reverse the club and in so doing moves from his stance, and thus delays the progress of the game, much to the annoyance of those playing with him, and Waiting to proceed with their strokes. The marking at the top of the shaft will afford a means to make this check up at a glance and without the delays incident to the reversal of the club, or the change in address.

This upper identifying mark is preferably carried by a cap b of fiberloid. This cap, Fig. 3, has a short depending marginal flange c and a pendant central portion (1. The flange embraces the upper edge portion of a wooden plug e which is suitably held in the upper end of the shaft J. The central pendant portion of the cap fits in a socket g in the wooden plug. This cap may be held in place as shown in said Fig. 3 by pyroxylin cement applied to the cap and to the socket in the wooden plug, the cap being pressed into place. The short flange c abuts against the upper end of the grip material shown at h.

In Fig. 4 the cap is shown with a pin m passing through the pendant portion of the cap. This cap also may be cemerfied in place.

In Fig. 5 the wooden plug is provided with a transverse hole. The pendant part of the cap is made longer than the socket in the wooden plug so that softening this pendant and forcing the cap into place the excess material of the pendant will enter the transverse opening in the wooden plug and thus the cap will be held in place.

I claim:

1. In combination with a golf club shaft, a plug in the upper end thereof, having a central socket, a cap to fit over said plug, and having a flange at its margin fitting down along the outer side of the plug, and having also a central pendant stem integral therewith, fitting in the central socket of the plug, said plug having an opening extending transversely thereof, means in said opening connected with the pendant stem for holding the cap in place, and a grip having its upper edge abutting the downwardly facing edge of the flange of the cap, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a golf club shaft, a plug in the upper end thereof, having a central socket,

in the upper end thereof, having a central socket,-

a cap to fit over the said plug, and having a central pendant stem, said plug having a recess communicating with the central socket, and located laterally in respect thereto, the said stern having a homogeneous portion fitting in the said recess, substantially as described.

MILTON B. REACH. 

